invent
invent 英 [ɪnˈvent] 美 [ɪnˈvɛnt]
vt. 发明；创造；
进行时:inventing 过去式:invented 过去分词:invented 第三人称单数:invents
- To invent is to create for the first time or make up. If you tell your friends that you invented the electric guitar, you are inventing a pretty unbelievable story about your past.
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- vt. 发明；创造；
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1. So they need to invent a new term.
所以，他们需要创造一个新的术语。
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2. Who invented the steam engine?
谁发明了蒸汽机？
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3. What excuse did he invent this time?
他这次编了什么借口？
- invent (v.) c. 1500, "to find, discover" (obsolete), a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire "to come upon; devise, discover." General sense of "make up, fabricate, concoct, devise" (a plot, excuse, etc.) is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought, find out by original study or contrivance." Related: Invented; inventing.
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